Henry D. Sokolski

This article is adapted from Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation (2001), by Henry D. Sokolski. Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, D.C., served in the Defense Department as Secretary Dick Cheney's deputy for nonproliferation policy from 1989-93.

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Articles by Henry D. Sokolski

1 March 2001
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Mission Impossible

Henry D. Sokolski
Described as “preventive defense” or “extended deterrence” by its supporters–but decried as “a new form of gunboat diplomacy” by its detractors–a new program called the “Counterproliferation Initiative” was unveiled in December 1993 by then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin.